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PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Barcelona based TEAM has been awarded a contract by Harwich International Port to design, manufacture and deliver a moveable and modern Passenger Boarding Bridge (PBB) of the SEDNA range. This PBB will…

1st December 2008

Worlds largest PBB for Harwich International

1st December 2008

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Dutch consultancy and engineering group DHV has completed its masterplan for a new port and industrial complex to be developed to the east of Port Said in Egypt.

1st December 2008

Port Said masterplan ready for investors

1st December 2008

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

A new harbour costing € 14m has been completed on one of the Aran Islands, which lie in the mouth of Galway Bay on the west coast of Ireland.

1st December 2008

New harbour for Aran Islands completed

1st December 2008

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

HR Wallingford in the UK has developed a new software package, in ArcGIS, to help coastal engineers model artificial beaches. The Beach Design and Management Tool (BDMaT) allows engineers to apply the…

1st December 2008

Building stable beaches – a new tool to help

1st December 2008

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Mexicana De Dragados SA de CV, the Mexican branch of Belgium’ s Jan De Nul Group, has signed a contract with the port authorities of the Mexican Pacific ports of Ensenada, Mazatlan…

1st December 2008

Mexican contract awarded to Jan de Nul

1st December 2008

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Subsidiaries of Dredging, Environmental and Marine Engineering (DEME) in Zwijndrecht, Belgium, have secured contracts valued at more than € 220m in recent weeks.

1st December 2008

DEME wins orders worth ¢220m

1st December 2008

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Van Oord in The Netherlands reports that the Defland Coast project has got underway. The Delfland Coast Consortium (Van Oord and Boskalis) began laying a pipeline on the beach at Hoek van…

1st December 2008

Defland Coast project gets under way

1st December 2008

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Dutch dredging and marine construction giant Van Oord has completed a project to deepen the navigable channel of the North Sea Canal in The Netherlands. Now, large ocean going vessels can once…

1st December 2008

Van Oord ensures easier and safer access to North Sea Canal

1st December 2008

SECURITY

SECURITY

Preventing unauthorised access to secure sites is a vital requirement for many industries, including at maritime locations such as boatyards and cargo storage areas in ports.

1st December 2008

Lock-outs to lock-ups for ports

1st December 2008

SECURITY

SECURITY

Dorset Police and Poole Harbour Watch in the UK are working together to make the county’ s marine community even safer as the dark winter nights draw in.

1st December 2008

Security Dorset

1st December 2008